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Food banks under pressure from a ‘tsunami of need’

And because they are supporting more and more people who are working, they are having to change their opening times to make sure working people can pick up their parcels outside of work hours […]

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Conference sets campaigning tasks on universal credit

Speakers talk of the devastation caused by Conservative attacks on benefits and the most vulnerable in society

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Posted in 2019 National Delegate Conference foodbanks repeal two child limit Universal credit
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The government needs to ‘sling their hook’

But Lorna Glover from Renfrewshire said that the union has to “embrace change and move from ‘we can’t’ to ‘we will’,” as she cited income generation programmes that […]

Article on the UNISON National site.
Posted in 2019 Local Government Conference austerity foodbanks local government poverty save our services
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A history man’s challenge for the future

Writer and veteran campaigner Harry Leslie Smith looks to the past and shares his hopes – and fears – for the future

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Posted in fighting cuts and privatisation in the NHS foodbanks Harry Leslie Smith history housing politics poverty zero-hours contracts